BABPP began in 2014 with a small group of volunteers feeding 10 children at Dike-Newell School in Bath. We started by providing bags of food, sourced through the Good Shepherd Food Bank backpack program, to elementary school children.
The Bath Area BackPack Program (BABPP) provides food for Bath area food-insecure children, who might otherwise go hungry on weekends and vacations when they cannot depend on school meals. We currently serve children and caregivers in Bath, Phippsburg, and Woolwich.
The Children's Oral Health Network of Maine (Network) unites hundreds of organizations and individuals statewide in a shared vision: ensuring that all children in Maine can grow up free from preventable dental disease. Creating a Maine where no child experiences dental disease demands bold solutions, collaborative action, and systems changes on many levels. The Network catalyzes collaboration and innovation in order to ensure that effective prevention, education, and treatment tools reach all children in Maine.
Friends of Casco Bay is a community of people who care about this special place, Casco Bay.
Their mission is to improve and protect the environmental health of Casco Bay. Concerned citizens formed Friends of Casco Bay/Casco Baykeeper® in 1989, after a report identified Casco Bay’s waters as one of the most polluted regions in the nation.
Friends of Casco Bay work to improve and protect the health of this special place for everyone. They are committed to creating a culture and practices that integrate diversity, equity and inclusion into our work.
Home To Home is a non-profit organization based out of Brunswick Maine that provides supervised visitations and exchanges for parents and their children. Home To Home has been providing supervised exchanges since 1996 and supervised visitations since 2012 to families who need a safe alternative for noncustodial parents to access their children. In the past 10 years, H2H has facilitated over 5,000 hours of supervised visitations. In 2023, Home To Home is expanding our service area by adding a new visitation site in Lewiston, Maine.
Maine Access Points (MAP) is a harm reduction organization, providing syringe access services, overdose prevention education and naloxone distribution, peer support, and advocacy throughout rural Maine. We do this through networks of community distribution and collective organizing.
Midcoast Literacy’s mission is to improve lives through literacy.
Midcoast Literacy is a non-profit organization based in Bath, Maine that has been providing free literacy programs to people of all ages in Lincoln, Sagadahoc and northern Cumberland Counties for more than 50 years. Midcoast Literacy’s vision is a community where everyone, from our youngest children to adults, is supported to learn to read, write, and speak English successfully, regardless of age, initial skill level, or background. We understand that the pursuit of literacy is a lifelong journey and offer a wide range of programs to help people of all ages develop their literacy skills, so they may become competent, healthy, caring individuals who succeed through all stages of life.
Together with its community partners, the PHA provides and expands affordable housing and services that improve quality of life, build community, enhance safety and promote personal success for the people we serve and the neighborhoods in which they reside.
The Trinity Jubilee Center addresses the unmet needs of Lewiston-Auburn residents through comprehensive services that meet basic needs, help people achieve and maintain stability, and support people in their work towards self-sufficiency.
Veggies to Table is committed to helping restore dignity to individuals and families who have lost control over that most basic of choices and decisions—what to eat. 1 in 7 Mainers do not have enough food on their tables daily and 43% of Maine students require school meals each day —helping to end hunger is vital. Thus, Veggies to Table grow top-quality organic produce and flowers to donate to local people experiencing hunger and needing joy.
